Debasement of impeachment
SUPREME Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen’s former colleagues and friends have expressed support for the magistrate as he battles an impeachment complaint endorsed by...
Laying the basis for takeover?
IN A MEMORANDUM issued last Dec. 4, the National Telecommunications Commission directed all public telecommunications entities and internet service providers to ensure very little...
Tandem to beat
AMID questions about the President’s health because of the scarcity of his public appearances, his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo expressed his desire for...
We have the right to know
WHEN a candidate stakes his chances in the presidential arena, he does so with full knowledge that he will not run government on the...
Will the Justices humor the Solicitor General?
IT IS LESS than a year before the filing of certificates of candidacy for elective offices in October 2021.
The country has been reeling from...
Is there evidence against de Lima?
SENATOR Leila de Lima has been in detention for drug charges longer than she was able to physically comply with her mandate, a position...
Failure to cover
SLOWLY trickling in are photographs of the devastation of Catanduanes and the rest of the Bicol region that stood directly in the path of...
Marcos protest facing a dead-end
CHIEF Justice Diosdado Peralta is optimistic that the election protest of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will not be overtaken by the filing...
Immunity from scrutiny
JUST YESTERDAY a mid-level public official was seen in a photograph wearing a watch that, if genuine, would be enough to buy a modest...
A tragic death
LAST Friday, Oct. 9, three-month-old infant River Nasino died of bacterial infection at the Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in...